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Mameluco — • The general term applied in South America to designate the mixed European Indian race, and more specifically applied in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the organized bands of Portuguese slave hunters who desolated the vast interior… … Catholic encyclopedia

Mameluco — Albert Eckhout: a Mameluca woman (circa 1641 1644). Mameluco the word is believed to be of Arabic origin. The word in Arabic is Mamluk (masculine) or Mamluka (feminine) مملوك (masculine) or مملوكة (feminine). The word Mameluco is a term of… … Wikipedia